OpenOffice Extensions and Templates by Roberto Galoppini [email protected] (presented by Andrea Pescetti)
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Agenda● Two sites for Extensions and Templates● Re-engineering and updates by
SourceForge● How to create and upload an Extension● How to create and upload a Template● Future ideas
Extensions and Templates
● Two community sites
● Created in 2007 and 2008
● Unstable for most of 2011
● Migrated to SourceForge February 2012
extensions.openoffice.org
templates.openoffice.org
Changes in February 2012
● Hosting moved to SourceForge
● Sites reachable again
● Code updates
● Rebased on PHP 5.3
Users and authentication
● Extensions: 18K users; Templates: 42K users
● All accounts depended on the openoffice.org LDAP (retired)
● Users were given the possibility to switch their account
● Users were sent a link to retain access● Users' account updated, they can now
login with their personal e-mail
Downloads
● All files are uploaded to the SourceForge mirror network
● Fast, reliable downloads
● Anti-virus check
● Emergency Coverage on a 24x7 basis
● Detailed analytics including time segmented graphs, locations and operating systems (also via API)
Download Statistics example: PDF import extension
Download Statistics example: aggregated data (all extensions)
Anti-spam improvements
● Extensions was receiving more than 30 spam comments every day
● New, more effective, anti-spam system
● Active monitoring and removal of spam comments
Extensions
● Browse Highest rated, Most popular, Most recent
● Browse by license or by operating system
● Browse by tags
Browsing Extensions
Creating an extension
● Use the "documentation" block to find Developer Resources
● Read appropriate information for Code extensions or Dictionary extensions respectively
● Create and package your extension according to the instructions
Creating an extension: documentation
Submitting a new extension
● Login or register to extensions.openoffice.org
● Click on "Submit Extension"
● Provide: name, description, tags, license...
Submitting a new extension (1)
Submitting a new extension (2)
Creating an extension release (first or new)● Open your extension page
● Click on "Add new Release"
● Provide your first or updated .oxt file
Creating an extension release (first or new) (1)
Creating an extension release (first or new) (2)
Templates
● Browse Highest rated, Most popular, Most recent
● Browse by application (Writer, Calc, ...)
● Browse by category (Business, Education, ...)
● Browse by language (18 languages)
Browsing Templates
Creating a template
● Create your document in OpenOffice
● Set description and license in File → Properties as explained in the "How does it work?" page
● Use File → Save as... to save as template
Uploading a template
● Login or register to templates.openoffice.org
● Click on "Upload your Template"
● Provide language, category and file
● Done!
Uploading a template (1)
Uploading a template (2)
Future ideas
● Platform updates● Technical improvements● Search improvements● Web 2.0 services
Platform updates
● Bring both sites to the same platform: now on two different framework versions, with the need to adapt code and interfaces to two different frameworks.
● Improved performance for high-traffic sites with thousands of users
● Improved user experience and usability● Improved support for multilingual sites
Technical improvements
● Automatic management of updates for Extensions
● The site can easily be replicated for (example) a company-wide internal repository
● Display different content and branding if called with different domain names: allow specialized/branded repositories
Technical improvements: branding example
Search improvements
● Apache Solr backend● Faster search● Autocomplete of search terms● "Did you mean" suggestions● "Saved searches" for any registered user
Search improvements: saved searches, subscribe to search
Web 2.0 services
● RSS feeds for embedding into other sites● RSS feeds to export specific searches
(latest dictionaries, templates matching "curriculum") to other sites
● New content is automatically posted on a dedicated Twitter channel
● Social features: share extension/template on Facebook and Twitter, five-star Rating function
Web 2.0 services: embed live search result in external site
Enabled improvements in OpenOffice (need coding!)● Support for adding/removing a repository of
extensions/templates● Search from within OpenOffice, with
description, rating and preview● Support for showing only the extensions
compatible with the OpenOffice version being used
● Open API based on web services to allow any other ODF-capable program to browse extensions/templates
Add/remove repositories: similar to Ubuntu
Searching extensions from OpenOffice: similar to Firefox
Ideas/comments from the community?● New ideas can be considered as well● Existing ideas must be prioritized according
to what the community prefers● And if you want to help in development you
are welcome too● Speak up on [email protected]
or [email protected] ● Or contact:
Roberto Galoppini [email protected]
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